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TIL: Craigslist has over $500 million annual revenue, nets about $100 mil, has a (now) billionaire founder, and only charges for ads in 6 cities.

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awMBL TIL about manual babbling. Deaf children or children born to deaf parents babble with their hands instead of vocalized babbling. Thus indicating that babbling is not nonsense, but instead an important part of language acquisition.
jGeE TIL In London from 1682 one could buy fire insurance: you attached a metal plate to their building ensuring that if there were a fire their insurance company would fight to extinguish it. If the building wasn’t insured the fire wasn’t put out unless it threatened to spread to an insured building.
opZ7 TIL In the UK today, a young person is more likely to have a television in their bedroom than a father in their house by the end of their childhood
nelaG TIL Some police departments won’t hire people who have above-average IQ
7AVX TIL that all bananas (or nearly all) consumed in the United States are picked very green, then ‘flash ripened’ by exposing them to ethylene gas. I also learned (see wiki in 1st comment) that ethylene is the most-used organic compound in industry.